To come to its verdicts, the colonial court relied upon “spectral evidence,” proof found in dreams and visions, sort of like imagining the pigskin sorcery that surely occurred behind a bathroom door with a dozen footballs in 100 seconds, and the “doctrine of effluvia,” a 17th-century version of “more probable than not” that decides that something, je ne sais quoi, just stinks here.
The authorities rounded up 125 accused witches, executing 13 women and seven men by hanging and, in one instance, pressing with rocks. Salem endured mass hysteria 323 years ago. Several weeks back he chose to speak at the only university, and a rather unheralded one at that, in Salem, Massachusetts. He didn’t deliver his first post-Wells Report remarks at Harvard, or Williams, or Wellesley, or BC, or MIT, or Amherst. The Super Bowl MVP could have appeared at any of more than a hundred other campuses in Massachusetts, where higher education remains a leading industry. Tom Brady quietly, but clearly, called the four-month pursuit of him a witch hunt.īrady didn’t use the phrase. Tom Brady, true to his pocket-passing penchant, neither “dodged” nor “avoided.” Instead, he stood arrow straight and called a trick play on his adversaries that ultimately resulted in a bullet pass whizzing past their heads without them the wiser. They got the story, like so many on this story, dead wrong. NFL.com’s headline claims, “Brady avoids questions about Wells Report.” ’s announces: “Tom Brady dodges Deflategate questions.”
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